Shek Kip Mei

Former Shek Kip Mei students recall poor but happy years

25 Nov 2012

For poor children growing up in Shek Kip Mei until the late 1970s, school was more than a place of learning - it was a safe house.

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Don't forget the Hong Kong that once welcomed mainlanders

6 Oct 2012

The Cantonese have a gloriously biting sense of humour, especially when it comes to describing people they don't necessarily admire.

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Pak Tin Estate: nostalgic lifestyle will be swept away

5 Oct 2012

Rectangular blocks of flats with colourful facades, old-style bakeries and restaurants, grocery stores selling cheap dried fruit - all these features that give Pak Tin an air of nostalgia will be...

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Living in a squalid subdivided flat is a miserable experience for SCMP reporter

19 Aug 2012

"Do you have anything cheaper in Sham Shui Po?" The landlord is showing me a subdivided unit in Prince Edward, with its own window and bathroom. At HK$3,200 a month, though, it's too expensive for...

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The art of discovery

27 Jun 2012

Our fingers and thumbs - useful for typing, texting, and holding things - also add up to 10. This number equals the destinations around Hong Kong featured on this month's Aedas Secret Spaces tour...

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iPad e-learning fears

26 Jun 2012

Parents of students from St Francis of Assisi's English Primary School, in Shek Kip Mei, are unhappy about the school's decision to use e-textbooks in the forthcoming school year.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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A vanishing community

Chan Hau-chu is 79 and lives in a flat in block 11 of Pak Tin Estate, in Shek Kip Mei. 'I have been living here since I gave birth to my first son,' she says.

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Officials' shift in public housing policy will help cut long waiting list

I think the government policy of only demolishing public housing blocks when they became too costly to repair was outdated.

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Artists explore the dark side of mushrooms

Mushrooms made of paper, ceramics and clay adorned part of the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Shek Kip Mei last weekend and will do so again next weekend as part of an exhibition titled...

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Rent rise fuels creative tension

Artists are unhappy about a sudden 20 per cent rent increase for studio space at a Shek Kip Mei arts centre, but the managers say the rise is necessary to keep the venture afloat.

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How children in Hong Kong and Cambodia combined and helped put a school together

About a year ago, a group of underprivileged minority children in Hong Kong, working alongside local architects, designed a school for their peers in Cambodia. Three months ago the school went up...

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Angela and Hayden in Concert

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